As a fan of the legend of spyro trilogy and shameless shipper of spyro and cynder in my spyro fics...

Show Contentspoilers plus fan overload:

SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!! THEY FINALLY ADDED CYNDER...HUZZAAAAH...and then they constntly mispronounced malefors name (in the legend of spyro trilogy the E was NOT SILENT!!!!!) and then made me smirk when he talked about taco's. Jim cummings was a good choice for the characters voice, given his past voicing some decent film and cartoon characters. I look forward to seeing whats done with him in season 3...

As for cynders voice actor, I;ve seen felicia days other work in mainstream TV (not the guild but almost everything else by sheer luck, ranging from buffy the vampire slayer to eureka) and the writers could not have picked better. I have high hopes for her in season 3...whenever it comes out.

By the way Malefor is written, the E has to be silent - you pronounce it different from "Before", you pronounce it like "Emperor", at least that's how I learned it in english classes in this non-english-speaking country. LoS would be the one in the wrong in this case.

Don't quote me on that though, again, learned pronounciation out of the country and never studied much of phoenetics. The ingame Skylanders skystone comes to mind.

I liked Cynder's struggle with her destiny of being good or evil, since she is born from an evil family of dragon overlords. But she wants to be a Skylander instead of following in her father's footsteps. Instead of the writers making her edgy and snarky from the start (like most fans were expecting), she is written as a new cadet who has insecurities and doesn't want to hurt anyone using her powers (unless necessary later on). While Team Spyro fought with the Greebles, Cynder was hesitant on helping her heroes, and tried to find out if there were motives behind the Greebles' act of evil at Yum Yum Fun Burger. She even has a big meltdown when Spyro's words of good guys always being good and bad guys always being bad got to her, which made her believe she could never be good since she was born evil.

Eventually after Spyro admits his mistake, Cynder finally choses the path she desires by saving Spyro from her father's wrath and leaving home to become a Skylander cadet. She also appears have become more spunky and confident afterwards, but apparently had to prove to others afterwards that she wasn't evil.

FINALLY got a chance to watch some episodes tonight...
Or rather, an episode and a third. At least I got the full length of this episode in. Would have liked to get all of the Thankstaking for the Memories in too, though.

Anyway...
I really liked this episode. It was a nice way to introduce Cynder into the series, and the way they showed her character was great. Good gags in there, too. I won't spoil it, but the ending gag... saw it coming and it was STILL gold!